When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

Bob Feller

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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

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I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

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Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

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I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

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I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit gam... by Bob Feller

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

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Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's... by Bob Feller

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

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You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

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My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

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The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

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Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth. by Bob Feller

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

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I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

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If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

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When I pick up the ball and it feels nice and light and small I know I'm going to have a good day. But if I picked it up and it's big and heavy, I know I'm liable to get into a little trouble.

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I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in... by Bob Feller

I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.

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Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in... by Bob Feller

Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues.

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As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

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Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball... by Bob Feller

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

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My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

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There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

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Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life. by Bob Feller

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

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